Sadie Gurman

Attorney General William Barr said President Trump was right to fire the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who became a key figure in the president’s impeachment proceedings last year.

In a Fox News interview that aired Thursday, Mr. Barr said the watchdog, Michael Atkinson, had overstepped his authority by pushing to tell Congress about a whistleblower’s complaint concerning Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.